Comparison

Outage Pro vs PowerOutage.com Lineman

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Outage Pro

Stay informed about power outages with a live map and custom alerts. Quickly understand grid status during severe weather and easily share outage information with others. Get real-time updates for your home, family, or community.

Highlights
  • Live power outage map
  • Severity indicators
  • Weather layers
  • Search outages by location/utility
  • Watchlist of locations/providers
  • Customizable alerts
  • Easy sharing of outage information
Read full description

Outage Pro is a storm-ready outage tracking app built to help you quickly understand what’s happening on the grid—right now. With a live power outage map, severity indicators, and weather layers, Outage Pro gives you fast clarity during severe weather events so you can make better decisions for your home, family, or community. Search outages by state, county, or utility, then zoom in to see impacted areas and trends. Create a watchlist of the places and providers you care about most, and set custom alerts so you don’t have to keep refreshing. When outages change—up or down—you’ll get notified based on your preferences. Outage Pro is also built for sharing. During storms, information moves through group chats, community pages, and local updates—so the app is designed to make it easy to share a single link or snapshot that keeps people informed. As Outage Pro continues to expand, upcoming improvements will focus on deeper storm context, broader coverage, faster updates, and more tools for partners and communities to distribute outage information quickly and clearly.

About

PowerOutage.com Lineman

This app provides real-time power outage information for utility crews. It features live maps, nationwide drill-down capabilities, and customizable alerts to keep workers informed about grid status and storm events.

Highlights
  • Live outage maps
  • 6-hour customer outage trends
  • Nationwide drill-down
  • Customizable alerts
  • Watch lists for regions/utilities
  • Storm callout feed
Features
Read full description

PowerOutage.com Lineman puts real-time outage data in the hands of the crews who restore the grid. • Local view — See outages around you on a live map, with a 6-hour customers-out trend so you know if it's getting better or worse. • Nationwide drill-down — Move from state to county to individual utility to see exactly who's affected, anywhere in the country. • Alerts — Get notified by region, county, utility, or a specific address the moment outages appear or grow. • Watch lists — Save the regions and utilities you track, and share them with your crew by code. • Feed — Get storm callouts and see what's happening with the linemen in your community. Built for line workers and restoration crews who need to know what's out before they roll. Access is currently invite-only.

Screenshots

Outage Pro4 screens
PowerOutage.com Lineman4 screens

Verdict

The call

Outage Pro and PowerOutage.com Lineman are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Outage Pro against 5.0 for PowerOutage.com Lineman. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Outage Pro ships an update every 8 days, PowerOutage.com Lineman weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Outage Pro versus PowerOutage.com Lineman: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOutage ProPowerOutage.com Lineman
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (13 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOutage Pro, LLCFE Bluefire LLC

Customer experience

Outage Pro

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PowerOutage.com Lineman

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Outage Pro

No in-app purchases

None

PowerOutage.com Lineman

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Outage Pro free?
Outage Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PowerOutage.com Lineman free?
PowerOutage.com Lineman is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Outage Pro or PowerOutage.com Lineman?
Outage Pro and PowerOutage.com Lineman are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 13 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Outage Pro or PowerOutage.com Lineman have ads?
Neither Outage Pro nor PowerOutage.com Lineman shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Outage Pro or PowerOutage.com Lineman?
Outage Pro ships an update every 8 days, and PowerOutage.com Lineman weekly. Most recently, Outage Pro was updated on September 19, 2026 and PowerOutage.com Lineman on September 11, 2026.

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